BOOKS

Perhaps you're familiar with 'Don Quixote': a story of delusional noblemen, portly squires, and windmill monsters. But here are a few facts you haven’t heard about the two-volume 17th-century masterpiece.

E.B. White's famed children's book may contain talking animals, but it also maintains a surprising studiousness when it comes to the true science of arachnids.

Remember how scared we were of satanic cults, Y2K, and nuclear war? (Okay, we're still scared of nuclear war.)

The gruesome way the author of Frankenstein coped with her husband's death.

Author Ransom Riggs is hanging out in Belgium with Tim Burton and the cast of the new Miss Peregrine movie as they shoot. Four years ago, he was about to become a first-time novelist, making his own short film...in the same town.

"I, Claudius" follows an emperor who played dumb to survive, and this historical fiction novel by Robert Graves became an immediate success.

Since J.K. Rowling launched Pottermore in 2012, she's been steadily revealing secrets of the wizarding world.

Most everyone knows the story of Edmond Dantès, the wrongfully-incarcerated hero of 'The Count of Monte Cristo.' But how familiar are you really with the classic?

The title page of this guide to the world's fauna rightly boasts "13 coloured plates and numerous illustrations in the text." The illustrations are the best part.

Orwell never acknowledged that he borrowed from 'We,' but the uncanny similarities make it hard to conclude otherwise.

'The Bell Jar,' which came out just one month before Sylvia Plath died by suicide at age 30, is the writer's only published novel.